OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Irregularities in forward-looking volatility	103
Trading strategies and the frequency of time-series	88
Rigidity in public contracts: Implications for renewal dynamics	85
Effects of credit and labor constraints on microenterprises and the unintended impact of changes in household endowments: Use of threshold estimation to detect heterogeneity	84
Are safe-haven assets really safe? Heterogeneity under economic, political and climate risks	71
The role of the COVID-19 pandemic in US market volatility: Evidence from the VIX index	63
Readability of asset securitization reporting and bank holding company’s credit risk	59
FoMO in the Bitcoin market: Revisiting and factors	56
ESG rating, rating divergence and investment efficiency: International evidence	51
Quantifying endogenous and exogenous shocks to financial sector systemic risk: A comparison of GFC and COVID-19	44
Quality differentiation and optimal pricing strategy in multi-sided markets	43
The sustainability factor in asset pricing: Empirical evidence from the Indian market	40
Moderating role of ESG disclosures and its impact on firm financial performance	39
Navigating the storm: Time-frequency quantile dependence and non-linear causality between crypto-currency market volatility and financial instability	38
Do geopolitical risks and global market factors influence the dynamic dependence among regional sustainable investments and major commodities?	38
Term structure of equity risk premia in rough terrain: 150 years of the French stock market	37
Examining the impact of natural gas price volatility on Euro zone inflation expectations	36
The positive impact of investment subsidies on the economy with present-biased consumers	36
Risk assessment of equity-based conventional and islamic stock portfolios	36
Decomposition of non-performing loans dynamics into a debt-servicing capacity and a risk taking indicators	36
Access-for-all to financial services: Non-resources tax revenue-harnessing opportunities in developing countries	35
The effect of financial distress on capital structure: The case of Brazilian banks	34
Firm valuation with state dependent COD taxation	34
News-based economic policy uncertainty and financial contagion: An international evidence	31
The capital ratio and the interest rate spread: A panel threshold regression approach	31

Do board size, institutional ownership and external auditors matter to market discipline in Indonesian banking?	31
Permanent inequality versus earnings instability and transmission of income shocks to consumption expenditure in India	31
Capital requirements and banks performance under Basel-III: A comparative analysis of Australian and British banks	29
Editorial Board	28
The decline in stock exchange listed firms	28
Optimal taxation, minimum wage constraint in a model of capital-skill complementarity	28
The equity premium and the disconnect between uncertainty and volatility: A global perspective	28
Time-frequency co-movement and cross-quantile connectedness of exchange rates: Evidence from ASEAN+3 Countries	28
Applications of fixed effect models to managerial risk-taking incentives	27
Cross border flows, financial intermediation and interactions of policy rules in a small open economy	27
Dissecting performance gains from export-induced marketing and technological investments: Revisiting learning by exporting in Indian manufacturing	27
Systemic importance of Chinese financial institutions based on the QC-ISAM-ARMA temporal network with coupling	26
Moderating effect of credit growth for financial development on economic growth: Considering banking crises and endogeneity	26
Sentiment, uncertainty, and bond return predictability	24
US foreign investments: Technology transfer, relative backwardness, and the productivity growth of host countries	24
The forward premium anomaly and the currency carry trade hypothesis	23
Are bond markets and bank credits complementary or substitutable? Evidence based on the rule of law and countries’ legal origins	23
Do influencers pay? Evidence from the Internet celebrity economy in China	23
Firm-level business uncertainty and the predictability of the aggregate U.S. stock market volatility during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
A new measure of fund window dressing and its application to Chinese mutual fund market	22
On the time-varying responses of Fintech stock returns to geopolitical, financial and market sentiment shocks	21
Nationalization of the private sector labor force, quotas, matching and public jobs, an illustration with Saudi Arabia	20
Forecasting intraday volatility and densities using deep learning	20
Signaling through tests	20
Capital requirements and banks’ behavior: Evidence from bank stress tests	20
Tax clientele and share repurchase execution	19
Genetic diversity and income inequality: The case for Y-chromosome DNA diversity	19
Mean--variance portfolio selection problem: Asset reduction via nondominated sorting	19
Editorial Board	19
Asymmetric effects of oil price shocks on the demand for money in Algeria	18
Corporate diversification, financial flexibility and firm performance during the Covid-19 pandemic	18
Gender differences and time allocation: A comparative analysis of Egypt and Tunisia	17
Does profitability explain the low-risk anomaly in India?	17
Do ESG disclosures mitigate investors’ reaction on mining disasters? Evidence from Brazil	17
Frequency domain quantile dependence and connectedness between crude oil and exchange rates: Evidence from oil-importing and exporting countries	16
A local volatility correction to mean-reverting stochastic volatility model for pricing derivatives	16
Editorial Board	16
The COVID-19 pandemic and the degree of persistence of US stock prices and bond yields	16
Bank geographic diversification and market competition	16
The relationship between investment determinants and environmental sustainability: Evidence through meta-analysis	16
The sum of all SCARES COVID-19 sentiment and asset return	16
Executive and non-executive employee ownership and bank risk: Evidence from European banks	16
Social pension insurance and household risky asset investment: Evidence from China	16
Geopolitical risks and tourism stocks: New evidence from causality-in-quantile approach	16
Hedging uncertainty: Bitcoin's asymmetric diversification benefits in factor-based portfolios	15
Are dividend changes exploited in the equity market?	15
Credit booms and crisis-emergent asset comovement: The problem of latent correlation	15
Macro-prudential policy, its alignment with monetary policy and house price growth: A cross-country study	15
Shaken, stirred and indebted: Firm-level effects of earthquakes	15
Does monetary policy favor the skilled? − Distributional role of monetary policy	15

Predicting abnormal capital flow episodes with machine learning methods	15
Trading activity and fund performance - Evidence from corporate bond mutual funds	14
Unveiling dynamics: Financial performance determinants in the Ghanaian insurance industry	14
Party direct control and corporate fraud: Evidence from China	14
The effect of the evergrande bankruptcy on Chinese real estate listed firms	14
Asymmetric nexus between shadow economy and financial instability: Does institutional quality matter?	14
In search of hedges and safe havens during the COVID─19 pandemic: Gold versus Bitcoin, oil, and oil uncertainty	14
Robbing a robber is not robbing	13
Do emerging stock markets offer an illiquidity premium for local or global investors?	13
How does credit information sharing shape bank loans?	13
Deviating from full rationality but not from theoretical consistency: The behavior of inflation expectations in Brazil	13
Uncertainty and gender inequality: A global investigation	12
Segmentation, business environment and global informational efficiency of emerging financial markets	12
Short- and long-term effects of ESG pillars on credit risk	12
Political patronage and banks’ leverage in the Middle Eastern and North African region: A new neural panel regression analysis	12
Price of greenness: Classifications and green bond premiums	12
Asymmetric cyclical connectedness on the commodity markets: Further insights from bull and bear markets	12
How does central bank transparency affect systemic risk? Evidence from developed and developing countries	12
Family ties and firm performance empirical evidence from East Asia	12
Do geopolitical risk, economic policy uncertainty, and oil implied volatility drive assets across quantiles and time-horizons?	11
Do foreign investors deter corporate fraud? Evidence from China	11
Recessions and flattening of the yield curve (1960–2021): A two-way road under a regime switching approach	11
Financial contagion dynamics from the US to the PIIGS amidst the global financial crisis	11
Customer concentration, managerial risk aversion, and hostile takeover threats	11
Revisiting the nexus between house pricing and money demand: Power spectrum and wavelet coherence based approach	11
Information disclosure and bidding structure: Evidence from the London bus market	11
Asset redeployability and dividend payout policy	11
The bank lending channel of monetary policy transmission in South Africa	11
Credit constraints and spillover effects of financial market liberalization: Case of Colombia	11
Who needs cash? Digital finance and income inequality	11
Conventional and unconventional shadow rates and the US state-level stock returns: Evidence from non-stationary heterogeneous panels	11
Duration of membership in the world trade organization and investment-oriented remittances inflows	11
Optimal inflation rate and fair wage	10
Financial inclusion and income distribution revisited: New findings	10
Does Corporate Social Responsibility reporting improve financial performance? The moderating role of board diversity and gender composition	10
The transmission of targeted monetary policy to bank credit supply	10
The performance of bidding companies in merger and acquisition deals: An empirical study of domestic acquisitions in Hong Kong and Mainland China	10
The role of international currency spillovers in shaping exchange rate dynamics in Latin America	10
Do more harm than good? The optional reverse charge mechanism against cross-border tax fraud	10
Pathways to self-sufficiency in the microfinance ecosystem	10
Decomposing the yield curve with linear regressions and survey information	10
Persistence and long run co-movements across stock market prices	10
Political connections, investment inefficiency, and the Indian banking crisis	10
Hedging demand and near-zero swap spreads: Evidence from the Chinese interest rate swap market	10
NFTs versus conventional cryptocurrencies: A comparative analysis of market efficiency around COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine conflict	10
Competition, ratings shopping, and yield spread: Evidence from China’s enterprise bond market	9
Sentiment-return relation and stock price synchronicity: Firm-level versus market-level sentiment	9
Make or buy for public services: Culture matters for efficiency considerations	9
The effects of countercyclical leverage buffers on macroeconomic and financial stability	9
When are busy boards beneficial?	9
On the benefits of active stock selection strategies for diversified investors	9
Import penetration and workplace safety	9
Markowitz portfolios under transaction costs	9
Impact of a new regulatory policy on thematic and monthly distribution funds in Japan	9
Green bonds: A demographic study of Retail Investors in India	8
Money demand function with time-varying coefficients	8
Customer concentration, managerial risk aversion, and independent directors: A quasi-natural experiment	8
Time-varying dependence of Bitcoin	8
Natural disasters and bank liquidity creation in Sub-Saharan African countries: Evidence from banks panel data	8
Nexus of Corporate Social Responsibility Expenditure (CSR) and financial performance: Indian banks	8
Asymmetry in inflation persistence under inflation targeting	8
The asymmetric impact of oil price shocks on China stock market: Evidence from quantile-on-quantile regression	8
Seasonal patterns of earnings releases and post-earnings announcement drift	8
Uncertainty matters in US financial information spillovers: Evidence from a directed acyclic graph approach	8
Does CEO general managerial ability matter in M&A voting?	8
Does AI contribute to systemic risk reduction in non-financial corporations?	8
Political influence and banking performance: Evidence from the African countries	8